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Leslie Conway " Lester " Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) [1] was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musician. [2] [3] The music critic Jim DeRogatis called him "America's greatest rock critic". [4] Early life. Bangs was born in Escondido, California.
Bangs developed a pure hatred of the lies and whitewashings of religion and government, his mutiny balanced against a bone-deep love of the truth—no matter how messy or unpretty it might turn ...
Dec 10, 2023 · Bangs was born in Escondido, grew up in El Cajon and died in New York in 1982 at the age of 33 from an apparently accidental overdose of Darvon, a prescription drug. His impact has been well...
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Jan 9, 2018 · The critic Lester Bangs, one of the form’s chief architects, wrote ravenous, intimate screeds that were predicated, always, on the quixotic but beautiful idea that music can save your life.
Lester Bangs, who died in 1982, is the most celebrated of the original "Noise Boys" of rock journalism. Some of his greatest pieces — most of them from Detroit's Creem magazine — were collected by Greil Marcus in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung .
Aug 3, 2020 · By Mike Rubin. Aug. 3, 2020. On Jaan Uhelszki’s first day at Creem magazine in October 1970, she met a fellow new hire: Lester Bangs, a freelance writer freshly arrived from California to fill...
Aug 29, 2003 · Aug 29, 20034:17 PM. If you sat down any rock critic in America and asked for a description of the late and nearly sainted rock critic Lester Bangs, they’d likely hand you a snapshot of excess ...
